The latest advances and developments in the field of document recognition are comprehensively presented in this extensive book. Camera-captured documents, natural scene images and videos have emerged as the new-age document recognition media due to the development of new media and internet. With the advent of low-priced digital cameras/recorders, they seem to get widely recognized while scanned paper documents were the only recognition target earlier. Advancements in novel techniques such as distinction of characters from non-characters, quick retrieval techniques from large-scaled scanned...

This book discusses the progress in character recognition with the help of descriptive information. It offers insight into the developments in character recognition, and it discusses wide range of topics on various facets of character recognition. This book will serve as a helpful source of reference for academic research, for professionals working in the character recognition areas and for all people interested in this subject.